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“Bloodstains? Did you find any clues?” Ye Qing asked.
Xu Banren shook his head. “No. We searched the area but couldn’t find anything suspicious.”
“How many people did Li Zhou come into contact with?”
“Eighteen.”
Ye Qing knitted his brow in concentration. “So, Li Zhou died when he tried to take off his shirt. What about the others? Did they feel any discomfort or something?”
Xu Banren shook his head. “Unclear. Everyone seemed fine when I left the scene, but I suspect that something bad will happen when their clothes are soaked through.”
“I think so too,” Ye Qing nodded in agreement.
The two were chatting as they walked. By the time they reached Cockcrow Alley, Ye Qing had more or less pieced together a rough outline of the situation.
“My lord!”
A dozen or so Pacification Sentinels were guarding the scene, and they saluted Ye Qing as soon as they saw him. Ye Qing waved them off and asked, “Did anything happen while the Lieutenant was gone, Zhou Xi?”
A thin but tough-looking man in black armor reported, “Everything's still fine, my lord, but the bloodstains on the victim’s shirts—well,...
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